[sdiy] Midi problems

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Colin Fraser" <colin at colinfraser.com> wrote:
>Is the 100ms interval described in the MIDI spec ?

Excellent question.  The first thing I did was grab my book
by Craig Anderton, "MIDI for Musicians." and found no mention
of such a timeout spec.  After 20 minutes on the web looking
at various other MIDI spec sites, I still find no mention of
a timeout with respect to running status.  

I think that most sound modules handle an "unexpected" status
byte correctly because they don't "know" that a controller that
doesn't use running status is plugged in or not.  If a module 
always responds correctly to any status byte, regardless of it's 
otherwise legal position in the stream, needed or not, it will by 
default, handle those extra status bytes that occur after some 
arbitrary timeout.

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